If he's seeing what I'm seeing then I can put my own answers to this. I
get freezups, lost keystrokes and eventual shutdown of the laptop. I can
reproduce it prettymuch at will be it a compilation of a piece of s/w,
the kernel, mozilla loading pages or whatnot.
> - How much memory does the machine have?
256
> - UP/SMP/preempt?
UP with and without preempt presents the same issues.
> - What do vmstat and top say?
My box never survived long enough for me to be able to look.
> - Did it happen in 2.5.64? 2.5.63? 2.4.20?
Never had this under 2.4, Not sure wchi version now as I went to 2.5
with this laptop as soon as the freeze came and I could back it up.
As for 2.5 I can definately say the sluggishness and freezes happen with
2.5.63+ (about to compile .66 and try it) but .63 does not turn the
laptop off for me and .64 takes a wee bit more punishment before dieing
on me.
> - Does it get better if you renice stuff?
my laptop and it survived.
> - What steps should others take to reproduce it?
Not too sure. For me it's 'when compiling don't even think of looking at
an input device the wrong way or BOOM'.
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